Minor documentation updates for critical

- extra dereference in cas example
- clarification of incr/decr
pull/2054/head
Christopher Haster 2016-07-05 12:14:20 -05:00
parent 9067148618
commit 946199183c
1 changed files with 12 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ void core_util_critical_section_exit(void);
*
* function incr(p : pointer to int, a : int) returns int {
* done = false
* *value = *p // This fetch operation need not be atomic.
* value = *p // This fetch operation need not be atomic.
* while not done {
* done = atomic_cas(p, &value, value + a) // *value gets updated automatically until success
* }
@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ bool core_util_atomic_cas_u8(uint8_t *ptr, uint8_t *expectedCurrentValue, uint8_
*
* function incr(p : pointer to int, a : int) returns int {
* done = false
* *value = *p // This fetch operation need not be atomic.
* value = *p // This fetch operation need not be atomic.
* while not done {
* done = atomic_cas(p, &value, value + a) // *value gets updated automatically until success
* }
@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ bool core_util_atomic_cas_u16(uint16_t *ptr, uint16_t *expectedCurrentValue, uin
*
* function incr(p : pointer to int, a : int) returns int {
* done = false
* *value = *p // This fetch operation need not be atomic.
* value = *p // This fetch operation need not be atomic.
* while not done {
* done = atomic_cas(p, &value, value + a) // *value gets updated automatically until success
* }
@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ bool core_util_atomic_cas_u32(uint32_t *ptr, uint32_t *expectedCurrentValue, uin
*
* function incr(p : pointer to int, a : int) returns int {
* done = false
* *value = *p // This fetch operation need not be atomic.
* value = *p // This fetch operation need not be atomic.
* while not done {
* done = atomic_cas(p, &value, value + a) // *value gets updated automatically until success
* }
@ -303,8 +303,11 @@ uint32_t core_util_atomic_incr_u32(uint32_t *valuePtr, uint32_t delta);
/**
* Atomic increment.
* @param valuePtr Target memory location being incremented.
* @param delta The amount being incremented.
* @param delta The amount being incremented in bytes.
* @return The new incremented value.
*
* @note The type of the pointer argument is not taken into account
* and the pointer is incremented by bytes.
*/
void *core_util_atomic_incr_ptr(void **valuePtr, ptrdiff_t delta);
@ -335,8 +338,11 @@ uint32_t core_util_atomic_decr_u32(uint32_t *valuePtr, uint32_t delta);
/**
* Atomic decrement.
* @param valuePtr Target memory location being decremented.
* @param delta The amount being decremented.
* @param delta The amount being decremented in bytes.
* @return The new decremented value.
*
* @note The type of the pointer argument is not taken into account
* and the pointer is decremented by bytes
*/
void *core_util_atomic_decr_ptr(void **valuePtr, ptrdiff_t delta);